Roverandom - Characters

Characters

Major

• Rover(andom) - The main character. A young puppy that is white with black ears. He is rather rude and excitable when first introduced. This is what causes him to irritate Artaxerxes in the first place.
• Artaxerxes - The wizard who meets Roverandom while on holiday. Wears a green hat with a blue feather in it. Comes from Persia but got lost and now lives in Pershore.
• Psamathos Psamathides - The chief of all Psamathists. He is described as being the size of a very large dog and being very ugly, with long ears that stick up. Days and nights he hides closely under the surface of the cove's sands, taking a nap - or two. He snuggles himself into the sand as into a warm blanket and only comes out when the sky begins to look like teatime or when some amusement is going on: A dance of the mermaids for example. Otherwise one can hardly find him, tucked up amidst the endlessly stretching covesands.
• Mew - A seagull that carries Roverandom down the moon path to the Moon.
• The Man in the Moon - The greatest of all magicians. He gives Rover the name Roverandom, so as not to confuse the two Rovers.
• Rover (The Moon Dog) - The Man in the Moon's dog.
• Rover (The Sea Dog) - The Dog Under the Sea.

Minor

• Tinker - The cat who Rover lived with before becoming a toy.
• Little Boy Two - The boy who owned Rover as a toy. An allusion to Michael Tolkien.
• Uin - The whale that takes Rover(andom) Under the Sea.
• Grandmother - Rover(andom)'s first owner. It is revealed at the end that she is, in fact, the grandmother of Little Boy Two.
• Mrs. Artaxerxes - Daughter of the mer-king and wife of Artaxerxes.